Under The Mountain Wall

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Under The Mountain Wall

Editorial: Vintage

ISBN: 978-00-9957-567-2

ISBN sin guiones: 9780099575672

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 288

Fecha de publicación: 2012-12-18

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Under the Mountain Wall

Editorial: penguin_classics

ISBN: 978-01-4025-270-5

ISBN sin guiones: 9780140252705

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 320

Fecha de publicación: 1987-01-06

Idioma: inglés (Estados Unidos)

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Under The Mountain Wall

Peter Matthiessen

Primera publicación: 2012-12-18

In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. Matthiessen joined the Harvard-Peabody Expedition of 1961which set out to study the tribe as unobtrusively as possible, living among the Kurelu for two seasons. The result was this classic account, not of the expedition but of a lost culture; the Kurelu's timeless rhythms of work and play, of warriorship, feasting and funerals. In Under the Mountain Wall Matthiessen illuminates the lives of the Kurelu's with respect and sympathy, capturing a culture untouched by civilisation and vanishing along with the wilderness lying beneath the dramatic peaks of the Snow Mountains.